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Patent Law, Copyright Law, And The Girl Germs Effect, Ann Bartow

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[Excerpt] "Inventors pursue patents and authors receive copyrights.

No special education is required for either endeavor, and nothing

precludes a person from being both an author and an inventor.

Inventors working on patentable industrial projects geared

toward commercial exploitation tend to be scientists or engineers.

Authors, with the exception of those writing computer code, tend

to be educated or trained in the creative arts, such as visual art,

performance art, music, dance, acting, creative writing, film

making, and architectural drawing. There is a well-warranted

societal supposition that most of the inventors of patentable

inventions are male. Assumptions about the genders …

A Psychometric Evaluation Of The Gender Bias In Medical Education Scale, Rhiannon Parker, Philip Parker, Theresa A. Larkin, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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University Of Wollongong And Nsw Department Of Education Make More Of Languages In Illawarra, Anu Bissoonauth-Bedford

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

There is a general recognition amongst language practitioners that learning of languages other than English is in decline and needs to improved in Australia. In his 2014 Adelaide Languages Festival speech, the former Education Minister Mr Christopher Pyne acknowledged this gap by highlighting the target set by the current government to have 40% of year 12 pupils studying a foreign or classical language within a decade.